Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kentwood, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 37 automated license plate readers in and around Kentwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 37 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kentwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Kentwood itself.
The rest sit in Wyoming (12), Grand Rapids (1).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Kent County Sheriff's Office (5), Kentwood Police Department (3), Flock Safety (1), Meijer (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
9 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Kentwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kentwood
The readers mapped around Kentwood break down as 38 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Kent County Sheriff's Office, Kentwood Police Department, Flock Safety, Meijer. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 54th Street Southwest — 5 readers
- Eastern Avenue Southeast — 5 readers
- 44th Street Southeast — 4 readers
- Kalamazoo Avenue Southeast — 4 readers
- 52nd Street Southeast — 4 readers
- 60th Street Southeast — 4 readers
- 44th Street Southwest — 2 readers
- Kellogg Woods Drive Southeast — 2 readers
- Breton Avenue Southeast — 2 readers
- Division Avenue South — 1 reader
- Gezon Parkway Southwest — 1 reader
- Meijer Entrance — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Kentwood — all on the live map above.
Kentwood MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kentwood MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 71 other agencies.
Kentwood in the Kent County picture
Kent County has 219 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #929 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 658,844 residents and 2,972 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 36 traffic. Operators named on the record: Kent County Sheriff's Office (5), Kentwood Police Department (3), Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Kentwood, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Kentwood. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Kentwood
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Kentwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kentwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kentwood
What you can do in Kentwood
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Kentwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).